Oooh! Cruise news!
Nov. 4th, 2005 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneFrom IMDB.Com news:
Daredevil Cruise Raises Blood Pressure on 'MI:3'
Tom Cruise is terrifying film-makers on the set of Mission: Impossible III, by insisting on carrying out his own death-defying stunts. The superstar actor has refused to allow a stunt double to take on the dangerous high falls necessary for his part as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the sequel - and his willingness to push himself to the limit even scares legendary stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong, who is working on the film with him. Armstrong tells Total Film magazine "He did a 70 foot fall for us last week. He's amazing. He did about seven takes. Absolutely terrifies me - I can see the headlines! What a way to finish a career."
I'm not a big fan of Cruise. I like the two M:I movies, mainly for the extreme stunts and the tech goodies. The stories were pretty sucky. In the first movie they turnd Jim Phelps into a traitor just so they could promote Cruise's character. Sorry, very bad move. They didn't have to make Phelps a traitor to make Cruise the lead, a simple retirement would have been sufficient. Heck, I'd have accepted giving Phelps an honorable death. But traitor? I don't think so. (this is a hot-button topic for me)
The second movie: hah! I can buy the face-switching in the Cage/Travolta flic Face-Off even though the two of them have such radical differences in physical build. But Cruise and Dougray Scott switching faces? I didn't buy it. I guess my willing suspension of disbelief has a lower threshold with M:I. Probably because Face:Off had major surgical intervention to accomplish the switch, whereas M:I was a latex mask.
Still, the stunting was amazing even if the story was kinda sucky.
My point was (I'm very tired right now and more than a little dain bread) was that I respect actors who do a lot of their own stunts. Christopher Lambert got beat up pretty badly doing Highlander. Jackie Chan was almost killed in what should have been a simple fall in Europe, fortunately, as it happened, one of the best surgeons in the world lived in a nearby town. Hell, look at what happened to Brandon Lee (well, maybe Lee shouldn't be included because a stupid mistake is what killed him, not a stunt gone bad). There are limits to what actors should do and it seems like Cruise is determined to push the envelope. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it could easily get him killed needlessly.
I just pulled up M:I 3 on IMDB and there is one significant name missing -- John Woo. It will be interesting to see what the stunting looks like with no Woo behind the wheel.
I'll probably see 3. I have been very disappointed in the last two Cruise movies that I've seen (Last Samurai and Minority Report). We'll see about 3, I'm sure it'll be next year's summer blockbuster, the timing is about right for it.
Daredevil Cruise Raises Blood Pressure on 'MI:3'
Tom Cruise is terrifying film-makers on the set of Mission: Impossible III, by insisting on carrying out his own death-defying stunts. The superstar actor has refused to allow a stunt double to take on the dangerous high falls necessary for his part as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the sequel - and his willingness to push himself to the limit even scares legendary stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong, who is working on the film with him. Armstrong tells Total Film magazine "He did a 70 foot fall for us last week. He's amazing. He did about seven takes. Absolutely terrifies me - I can see the headlines! What a way to finish a career."
I'm not a big fan of Cruise. I like the two M:I movies, mainly for the extreme stunts and the tech goodies. The stories were pretty sucky. In the first movie they turnd Jim Phelps into a traitor just so they could promote Cruise's character. Sorry, very bad move. They didn't have to make Phelps a traitor to make Cruise the lead, a simple retirement would have been sufficient. Heck, I'd have accepted giving Phelps an honorable death. But traitor? I don't think so. (this is a hot-button topic for me)
The second movie: hah! I can buy the face-switching in the Cage/Travolta flic Face-Off even though the two of them have such radical differences in physical build. But Cruise and Dougray Scott switching faces? I didn't buy it. I guess my willing suspension of disbelief has a lower threshold with M:I. Probably because Face:Off had major surgical intervention to accomplish the switch, whereas M:I was a latex mask.
Still, the stunting was amazing even if the story was kinda sucky.
My point was (I'm very tired right now and more than a little dain bread) was that I respect actors who do a lot of their own stunts. Christopher Lambert got beat up pretty badly doing Highlander. Jackie Chan was almost killed in what should have been a simple fall in Europe, fortunately, as it happened, one of the best surgeons in the world lived in a nearby town. Hell, look at what happened to Brandon Lee (well, maybe Lee shouldn't be included because a stupid mistake is what killed him, not a stunt gone bad). There are limits to what actors should do and it seems like Cruise is determined to push the envelope. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it could easily get him killed needlessly.
I just pulled up M:I 3 on IMDB and there is one significant name missing -- John Woo. It will be interesting to see what the stunting looks like with no Woo behind the wheel.
I'll probably see 3. I have been very disappointed in the last two Cruise movies that I've seen (Last Samurai and Minority Report). We'll see about 3, I'm sure it'll be next year's summer blockbuster, the timing is about right for it.
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Date: 2005-11-04 06:21 pm (UTC)Take that for what it's worth.
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Date: 2005-11-04 11:43 pm (UTC)After his lunatic anti-psychotheraputic-drug foam-at-the-mouth I'm-a-celebrity-so-do-as-I-say ignorance, I've sworn off ever ever giving the dickwad another dime of my money. I have major (MAJOR) problems with how those drugs are being used, but I absolutely know they are essential to many. So screw him.
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Date: 2005-11-05 04:46 am (UTC)